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Guess everybody's just too busy exercising to comment

That must be it.

Not knowing if I would get off work in time to get any garden cardio, I did walk 1.8 miles in the Game Room this morning. {24min@4.5mph} I have a black church group at work today, and they were jamming down in the Ball Room while I walked. Still are, as a matter of fact. I turned off my music until they take a break for lunch. {the real reason I walked: southern soul food}

I had company this weekend. It sucked. I will start exercising again, tomorrow.

Long weekend here so the dojo is closed. Also we're celebrating my youngests' 6 th bday. Got some plants, flowers and herbs today and if the weather holds I'll plant them tomorrow.

Mowed today. Tonight everything hurts. This wasn't the first mow so I'm not sure why I'm so stiff. Just too old I guess.

Happy Monday! Weekend was busy as always. Ran to Bath on Saturday to return the walker hubby borrowed from them- 4 hours in the car- not so fun for my bumm! I did some mowing when I got home and then my daughter and son-in-law came over and my son-in-law cut down a couple of trees that needed to come down. Sunday I was going to finish mowing, but the mower decided that it no longer wanted to work. Hopefully my brother-in-law can get it running today.

I walked this morning. It was so nice out- then when I got back I enjoyed my coffee with the mosquitoes on my back deck- It was peaceful overall, but a couple of them buggers had a good breakfast too!

Morning everyone and happy Monday!

I have been so horrible since getting back from our cruise....well, not horrible but at least bad. I am also in the process of moving in with my BF and my commute to work has gone from 25 min to an hour and 10 minutes on a good day. Add in trying to get my 5 year old moving way earlier in the morning than he is used to and it's a royal PITA to get out the door on time.
Plus, my evenings to get things done and prepared for the next day is shortened by the time we get home and have to get to bed earlier so that I don't feel the need to fall asleep behind the wheel on the drive to work.
And working out....what's that? Ugh!

Once we're all the way moved and settled into our new routine things should work out better. Right now, it's just a huge cluster. At least I can TRY and get back to my eating routine before the cruise. I'm trying to find slow cooker recipes that I can throw in easily in the morning that doesn't require a lot of prep work. At least that can save time in the morning. Or make casseroles that we can also make several meals out of.
I guess I at least have a plan, now I just have to execute it. LOL

Crosby, sorry for your loss. My 5 year old did well at the wake, bad when leaving for the church before they closed up the coffin, awful at the church and better now. 10 and 8 did similar.
My eating was bad this weekend - hardly home. Did get 14k steps in each of Saturday and Sunday. Scale up but I am hoping it is bloat from all the gluten and will magic away by tomorrow or I will have to log the gain.

Been a busy weekend. Visit my Partner's sons. a wild weekend but overall 10 hours in a car with lots of sweeties...never a good idea.

Back on track now and time to get that old cross trainer out and dust off the cob webs.

Have a great week everyone

@alishaspringle- Thank you for the words of advice and encouragement! I'm confident that I will find my groove once the move is complete and we are settled in. I just really dislike this unsettled feeling.
What are once-a-month meals?

Thankfully my BF does shift work so he is actually off until the weekend this week so I have given him a Honey Do list for today for starters. LOL
Haven't received a text back from him yet so I'm not sure what his reaction to that is. LOL
I have to remember that I have a partner is this now and I don't have to do it all alone. I just have to ask so he knows what direction to go in. LOL

Hi All~ No workout today- was going to go to kickboxing tonight, but have had something come up that I have to take care of when I get out of work.
I came into work today to find that the toilet had backed up and flooded during the heavy rain we had here last night. It made a HUGE mess both upstairs where the bathroom is and in the room we have downstairs as the water ran right down through the floor. It's pretty disgusting as it's not just clean water- it's sewer water- nasty stuff! YUCK!

Well, hope others have a great day. I am going to try to get some work done, but still waiting for the cleaning crew to come with the extractor to get the water out of the carpets, so it may be a day where not a lot gets done.

Welcome to Tuesday Cool Kids!
We had a great opening to rock fish season! Both B & I got our limit (5) plus I caught a ling cod (they've got fangs!!) There were lots of whales. We saw 9, mostly cow/calf pairs. One pair surfaced only about 15 ft from B's kayak. You should have seen the look on his face! Whales are kinda big, and it can be pretty startling when you get dowsed with whale blow. I wish the water were clearer here so we could see them swimming underneath us. Anyway, we got the fish filleted and vacuum bagged in the freezer. One more good trip should set us up for the year.
The last two work weeks have been going well food-wise, and I'm down 6 lbs over the two weeks, which is cool! This week I don't expect as much movement. Yesterday was B & my 7th anniversary - meet date, not married, but we still celebrate; and tonight is a final girl's night before my gf heads to Europe for the summer months to teach. So I'll only have a couple of totally clean days.
Ruby, Rocky is gorgeous!
Crosbylee, so sorry to hear of your MIL's passing. How are you all doing?
Alf, welcome (in advance) to California! What college is she graduating from?
Stephannie, remember to breathe! Maybe motivational podcasts or books for the commute?
KS, yuck! I hope things are getting back to clean & dry at your workplace. You'll need some kick-boxing.
Nick, congrats on the loosening pants! That's awesome!
Larro, your cats crack me up. They're such natural hams.
Hello to everyone else! Time to run. Have a great day folks.

3furballs you can only compare the dr's number to last dr's number. Scales and conditions (clothes) vary so much. Just do apples to apples and try not to get depressed about. If your scale is moving then that's what matters. You could go back in tank and bike shorts and number would move a couple pounds...
I use same scale, same time, same conditions...daily... so I can keep things in check.

3furballs, in the process of prepping for my surgery last week, U got weighed on 3 different scales in 3 different medical facilities in the same day. The totals were 4-12 pounds different! So don't worry about it at all. Just go by yours, and by how you feel.

My scale has me down another 2 lbs this week. 8 lbs from my intermediate goal. Woohoowoohoo. Lowest weight in 5 years.

Lifted this morning. Walked in the park for an hour this afternoon. Will shag my husband for evening exercise.

I am gonna be a morning, noon and night type of fitness gal during unemployment, i tell ya!